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The American Scholar Archives
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The American Scholar •ï¿½71 Years, 284 Issues, 6,139 Articles, 43,357pp
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The Revolving Bookstand
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Twenty-four outstanding books of the previous quarter
The American Scholar, Summer 1954, pp. 366-375
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. God's Country and Mine (1954)
    Jacques Barzun
    A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words
    10 Reviews, 2 Readable
  2. Company Manners (1953)
    Louis Kronenberger
    A Cultural Inquiry into American Life
    10 Reviews, 3 Readable
  3. Man's Unconquerable Mind (1954)
    Gilbert Highet
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  4. But We Were Born Free (1954)
    Elmer H. Davis
    10 Reviews, 2 Readable
  5. On Education and Freedom (1954)
    Harold Taylor
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  6. Scenes and Portraits (1954)
    Van Wyck Brooks
    Memories of Childhood and Youth
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  7. The Second Tree from the Corner (1954)
    E.B. White
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  8. The Manner is Ordinary (1954)
    John La Farge
    4 Reviews, 2 Readable
  9. The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921 (1954)
    Isaac Deutscher
    12 Reviews, 4 Readable
  10. The People of South Africa (1951)
    Sarah Gertrude Millin
    7 Reviews, 2 Readable
  11. Rum Jungle (1953)
    Alan Moorehead
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  12. Seven Years in Tibet (1954)
    Heinrich Harrer
    7 Reviews, 1 Readable
  13. Domenico Scarlatti (1953)
    Ralph Kirkpatrick
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  14. New Letters of Berlioz, 1830-1868 (1954)
    Hector Berlioz
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  15. The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert (1953)
    Francis Steegmuller and Gustave Flaubert
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  16. The Gentleman of Renaissance France (1954)
    William Leon Wiley
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  17. The Finer Tone (1953)
    Earl R. Wasserman
    Keats' Major Poems
    1 Review
  18. John Keats: The Living Year (1954)
    Robert Gittings
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  19. Beyond Criticism (1953)
    Karl Jay Shapiro
    1 Review
  20. The Desert Music, and Other Poems (1954)
    William Carlos Williams
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  21. The Ponder Heart (1954)
    Eudora Welty
    8 Reviews, 2 Readable
  22. The Horseman on the Roof (1954)
    Jean Giono
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  23. The Cobweb (1954)
    William Gibson
    7 Reviews, 1 Readable
  24. Cress Delahanty (1954)
    Jessamyn West
    7 Reviews, 1 Readable
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